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Fractal Terrains Pro - suitable for what I want?

Hello all,
Recently I have been thinking about purchasing Fractal Terrains Pro as it seems very good from what I can see, however I have a few specific questions as I have a certain type of map in mind.

Basically, a random world is fine (such as FT generates), but I would like to be able to produce something that looks like this which looks quite neat and realistic and has contour lines without too much colour - most of the FT maps I saw were in full colour:http://tzirtzi.ipage.com/akana/image...ion_labels.jpg